1 Tawarikh 16:34

16:34 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good

and his loyal love endures. ¹ 

Mazmur 136:1

Psalm 136 ² 

136:1 Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good,

for his loyal love endures. ³ 

Matius 19:17

19:17 He said to him, “Why do you ask me about what is good? There is only one who is good. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

Markus 10:18

10:18 Jesus said to him, “Why do you call me good? ⁴  No one is good except God alone.

[16:34]  ¹ tn Or “is eternal.”

[136:1]  ² sn Psalm 136. In this hymn the psalmist affirms that God is praiseworthy because of his enduring loyal love, sovereign authority, and compassion. Each verse of the psalm concludes with the refrain “for his loyal love endures.”

[136:1]  ³ tn Or “is forever.”

[10:18]  ⁴ sn Jesus’ response, Why do you call me good?, was designed to cause the young man to stop and think for a moment about who Jesus really was. The following statement No one is good except God alone seems to point the man in the direction of Jesus’ essential nature and the demands which logically follow on the man for having said it.